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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
37995
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Gill Valentine is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the social sciences and health professions. Among their main fields of study are social sciences with nine publications, and health professions with three publications.

The scientist's work intersects several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, geography, planning and development, demography, and finance. Their research topics cover a broad range, emphasizing homelessness and social issues, geographies of human-animal interactions, migration, aging, and tourism studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, migration, ethnicity, and economy, Hong Kong and Taiwan politics, and China's socioeconomic reforms and governance.

Gill Valentine has published research in various academic venues, notably:

  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Geoforum
  • Urban Geography
  • International Sociology

Frequent collaborators include Mark Jayne, with whom they have co-authored four papers, Chen Liu in two instances, and Aneta Piekut with one co-authored publication.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness and everyday financial lives: Relational geographies of family and work in China" (2022), published in Geoforum
  • "" yúlóng-hùnzá" - fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China" (2021), published in Urban Geography
  • "Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness" (2023), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness" (2024), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland" (2021), published in International Sociology

Gill Valentine has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. No specific year was provided for this award.

Best Publications

  • Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat

    David Bell;Gill Valentine

  • Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter:

    Gill Valentine

  • Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*

    Gill Valentine

  • Key Methods in Geography

    N. J. Clifford;Gill Valentine

  • The geography of women's fear

    Gill Valentine

  • Children's Geographies : Playing, Living, Learning

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • Cool places : geographies of youth cultures

    Tracey Skelton;Gill Valentine

  • Children's outdoor play: exploring parental concerns about children's safety and the changing nature of childhood

    Gill Valentine;John McKendrck

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Place

    Phil Hubbard;Rob Kitchin;Gill Valentine

  • Social Geographies: Space and Society

    Gill Valentine

  • Public Space and the Culture of Childhood

    Gill Valentine

  • Cyberkids : children in the information age

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • (Hetero)Sexing Space: Lesbian Perceptions and Experiences of Everyday Spaces:

    G Valentine

  • ”Oh Yes I Can.”“Oh No You Can't”: Children and Parents' Understandings of Kids' Competence to Negotiate Public Space Safely

    Gill Valentine

  • Angels and Devils: Moral Landscapes of Childhood

    Gill Valentine

  • Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD: THE PRODUCTION AND TRANSGRESSION OF ADULTS' PUBLIC SPACE

    Gill Valentine

  • All hyped up and no place to go

    David Bell;Jon Binnie;Julia Cream;Gill Valentine

  • CHILDREN’S GEOGRAPHIES AND THE NEW SOCIAL STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities

    David Bell;Gill Valentine

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah L. Holloway
Sarah L. Holloway Loughborough University
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Nicholas J. Clifford
Nicholas J. Clifford Loughborough University
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Stephen P. Rice
Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University
Phil Hubbard
Phil Hubbard King's College London
M.V. Lee Badgett
M.V. Lee Badgett University of Massachusetts Amherst

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